On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:44:50PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:11:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > >> Would this GR be conducted by the outgoing secretary? If the reason for > >> the disagreement is that the secretary has lost the confidence of a > >> significant number of developers, that rule could make a bad situation > >> worse. > It might not be so simple, if for example the dispute was over who was > eligible to vote.
The secretary doesn't determine who is eligible to vote, DAM does. Votes are authenticated by valid gpg keys, which are provided by keyring-maint. > I'm sure Debian would muddle through. On the other hand, one of the > purposes of a written constitution is to be as helpful as possible in > just such 'crises'. Yeah. I'm not sure it's even possible to solve every potential constitutional crisis though. Cheers, aj
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature